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.Dd August 7, 2003
.Dt MSKANJI 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mskanji
.Nd "Shift-JIS (MS Kanji) encoding for Japanese text"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm ENCODING
.Qq MSKanji
.Sh DESCRIPTION
Shift-JIS, also known as MS Kanji or SJIS, is an encoding system for
Japanese characters, developed by Microsoft Corporation.
It encodes the characters from the
.Tn JIS
X 0201 (ASCII/JIS-Roman) and
.Tn JIS
X 0208 (Japanese) character sets as sequences of either one or two bytes.
.Pp
Characters from the
.Tn ASCII Ns
/JIS-Roman character set are encoded as single bytes between 0x00 and 0x7F
(ASCII) or 0xA1 and 0xDF (Half-width katakana).
.Pp
Characters from the
.Tn JIS
X 0208 character set are encoded as two bytes.
The first ranges from
0x81 - 0x9F, 0xE0 - 0xEA, 0xED - 0xEE (not
.Tn JIS :
.Tn NEC Ns - Ns
selected
.Tn IBM
extended characters),
0xF0 - 0xF9 (not
.Tn JIS :
user defined),
or 0xFA - 0xFC (not
.Tn JIS :
.Tn IBM
extended characters).
The second byte ranges from 0x40 - 0xFC, excluding 0x7F (delete).
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr euc 5 ,
.Xr utf8 5
